glsa-201904-18.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201904-18">
  <title>libseccomp: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in libseccomp allows for privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libseccomp</product>
  <announced>2019-04-17</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-04-17</revised>
  <bug>680442</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-libs/libseccomp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A library that provides an easy to use, platform independent, interface
      to the Linux Kernel’s syscall filtering mechanism.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libseccomp users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-libs/libseccomp-2.4.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9893">CVE-2019-9893</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-03-24T13:22:58Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-04-17T18:31:42Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>